Jan
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Jan
Jan, not short for Janet or Janice but standing on its own, ranked in the Top 200 throughout the 1950s but dropped off the Top 1000 in the 1980s and now is a truly extinct name, given to fewer than five baby girls in the US each year.
Jan for boys#2731 US
A standard form of John in Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Slovene, German, and Catalan. Properly pronounced yahn (in most of these languages), most Americans will still equate it with the Brady Bunchesque girls' name Jan, which is now officially extinct.
About 70 baby boys were named Jan in the US last year, and we'll bet many of those are pronounced the American way, rhyming with can.
Pronounced YAHN; JAN.
As of October 2026, Jan ranked #15898 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #131 in 1954.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | #1,787 | 84 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | #1,685 | 93 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | #1,804 | 84 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | #2,157 | 63 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | #1,843 | 82 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | #2,471 | 54 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | #2,054 | 69 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | #2,261 | 62 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | #2,155 | 68 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | #2,116 | 69 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | #2,211 | 65 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | #2,731 | 47 |
World rankings
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Famous Jans
- Janice Kay "Jan" BrewerGirl
American politician, 22nd governor of Arizona
- Janet Vivian "Jan" HooksGirl
American actress
- Jan Howard (born Lula Grace Johnson)Girl
American country music singer
- Janet "Jan" RavensGirl
English actress
- Jan ChesbroGirl
Wohlschlag, American high jumper
- JanBoy
Harm Pol, Dutch,American veterinarian who stars in the reality show "The Incredible Dr. Pol"
- Jan HusBoy
Czech church reformer
- Jan van EyckBoy
Flemish painter
- Jan Brueghel the ElderBoy
Flemish painter
- Jan de BrayBoy
Dutch painter
- Jan III SobieskiBoy
King of Poland
- Jan MagnussenBoy
Danish racing driver
- Jan MelaBoy
Polish explorer, teenage double amputee, youngest person to reach the North Pole
- Jan LammersBoy
Dutch racing driver
- Jan CharouzBoy
Czech racing driver
- Jan HammerBoy
Czech jazz,pop musician
- Jan MasarykBoy
former foreign minister of Czechoslovakia
- Jan TinbergenBoy
Dutch economist
- Jan LambBoy
Hong Kong DJ
Jan in pop culture
- Jan BradyGirl
character on TV's "The Brady Bunch"
- JanGirl
character in musical and film "Grease"
- "JanGirl
" 2012 TV series and its main character
- JanGirl
Toyota commercial mascot
- Jan KowalskiGirl
character in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
- Jan LevinsonGirl
a character from the TV show "The Office"
- JanGirl
character in Lynne Reid Banks' "The Fairy Rebel"
- Doctor Jan SzukalskiBoy
character from Night trains, by Barbara Wood